Native Americans of Texas Vocabulary

a type of brick made from mud and straw, used to build pueblos

• adobe

• sednetary

• adapt

• pueblo

remaining in one place

• nomadic

• artifact

• sedentary

• reservation

to adjust to the conditions you are living in

• nomadic

• adapt

• Tonkawa

• tejas

type of shelter used by the Jumano Indians, made from adobe bricks

• pueblo

• tepee

• dugout

• pow-wow

a Waco Indian word meaning "they all stay together

• pueblo

• Tonkawa

• tejas

• Beringia

Caddo word that means friend

• Beringia

• Tonkawa

• tejas

• artifact

an object made by a human being that lived long ago

• pueblo

• artifact

• reservation

• nomadic

an area of land set aside by the government for Native Americans to live on

• reservation

• sedentary

• adobe

• pueblo

not having a permanent home, moving from one place to another

• modify

• barter

• nomadic

• sedentary

a land bridge that existed between Asia and North America during the ice age before sea levels rose

• pow-wow

• Tonkawa

• dugout

• Beringea